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Helen Dale on what Tina Turner meant to Australian football
My friend Helen Dale is a novelist, essayist, and sometime lawyer. Though it will embarrass her to see this, you, reader, should know that she’s uncommonly insightful and has more than one woman’s share of writing talent.
Helen shines with her ability to explain clearly how various governmental and cultural systems compare and contrast. If you want to understand the Westminster system as a Yank, Helen is the writer you want.
As she’s also a novelist, she has imagination to go along with intellect. It’s there in her speculative fiction/alternative history of the Roman Empire, Kingdom of the Wicked. It was obvious from her first and most famous novel about the Ukrainian Holodomor, The Hand That Signed the Paper.
And it’s here in her remembrance of her youthful encounter with an American force of nature. I won’t spoil it; the pleasure is in the reading and you may be surprised what it evokes for you.
This is how an essay on what music and musical culture can mean should be done.
Video clip from the article:
https://youtu.be/tXIzp0ok24I
Tina Turner did this promo for rugby in Australia back in 89. What a stark contrast to what it is today, no hatred for masculinity in this video whatsoever. This is back when western countries were still mostly free of woke communism, and men were not looked down upon or hated for being masculine.
Tina is also a totally different kind of woman from what we see today in so much of the west, she isn't trying to compete with the men. She's basking in their masculinity, appreciating them for what they are, not trying to go onto the field and play against them.
The past truly is a different country, especially in the western world.
Thank-you, Josh.